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Another night I dreamed I heard heavenly music sounding in my ears, and a flock of sheep was gathering round it. When the music ceased, the sheep leaped for joy, and ran together, shaking their heads; and one shook his head almost off, and seemed to have nothing but ears.

Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

The American people want peace. They have long since ceased to talk of a hard or a soft peace for Germany.

There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.

As for the extraordinary operations of the Holy Ghost, such as working of miracles, or speaking with divers kinds of tongues, they are long since ceased.

We pacifists have not ceased to point to the grave danger of armaments and to insist on their curtailment.

True, permanent peace can never be restored, until slavery, the occasion of the war, has ceased.

Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress.

Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written.

Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man; it has become the amusement and delight of the few.

Now, everybody, I suppose, is aware that in recent years the silly business of divination by dreams has ceased to be a joke and has become a very serious science.

Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.

Mental states of every kind, - sensations, feelings, ideas, - which were at one time present in consciousness and then have disappeared from it, have not with their disappearance absolutely ceased to exist.

No one can fail to see that the power of the Church among large numbers in many communities is today diminishing, or has already ceased.

In those parts of the world where learning and science has prevailed, miracles have ceased; but in those parts of it as are barbarous and ignorant, miracles are still in vogue.

A modern girls' school, equipped as scores are now equipped throughout the country, was of course not to be found in 1858, when I first became a school boarder, or in 1867, when I ceased to be one.

I know that I have lived because I have felt, and, feeling giving me the knowledge of my existence, I know likewise that I shall exist no more when I shall have ceased to feel.

One said of suicide, As long as one has brains one should not blow them out. And another answered, But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.

A person who knows how to laugh at himself will never ceased to be amused.

The alleged menace of universal suffrage having been avoided by the absolute suppression of the negro vote, the spirit of mob murder should have been satisfied and the butchery of negroes should have ceased.

I just think that sometimes we hang onto people or relationships long after they've ceased to be of any use to either of you. I'm always meeting new people, and my list of friends seems to change quite a bit.

Some persons have ventured to say that it is only since Englishmen ceased to believe in the Bible that they began to discover how beautiful it was.

We have become makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets.

At the moment you are no longer an observing, reflecting being; you have ceased to be aware of yourself; you exist only in that quiet, steady thrill that is so unlike any excitement that you have ever known.

It was a long time in the making, my divorce. One day became less special than the next, and pretty soon, we ceased all conversation. It is a sad day when you have nothing left to say.

I've ceased making predictions on things because we'll see how they turn out.

If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.

I ceased using words like optimism and pessimism a long time ago.